Heya folks :)

Here's your chance to catch up with all things Wikidata of the past week.

Noteworthy Stuff

   - Wikisource will receive access to the data in Wikidata on February
   25th. Planning is taking place at
Wikidata:Wikisource<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikisource>
   .
   - 1 week left to give initial input for the user interface
redesign<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:UI_redesign_input>

Did you know?

   - Newest properties: impact
factor<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1169>
   , Municipality code (Denmark)<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1168>
   , USB ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1167>, Home
world<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1165>
   , Cardinality of the group <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1164>
   , Internet media type
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1163>, Bluebook
   abbreviation <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1162>, Z39.5
   abbreviation <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1161>, ISO 4
   abbreviation <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1160>,
CODEN<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1159>
   , landing site <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1158>, US
   Congress Bio identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1157>, Scopus
   Source ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1156>, Scopus
   Affiliation ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1155>,
Scopus EID<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1154>
   , Scopus Author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1153>, IPTC
   Media Topic <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1152>, topic's main
   portal <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1151>, Regensburg
   Classification <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1150>, Library
   of Congress Classification <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1149>
   , neutron number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1148>
   - Fun Fact: Wikidata has reached 30 million
statements<http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/stats.php>

Development

   - Refactored the suggestions drop-downs when entering properties for
   better performance
   - Fixed a misdirected arrow in left-to-right languages
(bugzilla:61308<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61308>
   )
   - Worked on an Apache redirect issue
(bugzilla:54273<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54273>
   )
   - Found and started fixing an issue that asked users for additional
   languages they don't want according to their Babel box
(bugzilla:61446<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61446>
   )
   - Table-of-contents link to the statements section of an item was broken
   - Kept poking TimeParsers
   - Made WikibaseDatabase feature complete for use with WikibaseQueryEngine
   - Work on caching javascript config variables in parser cache
   - Investigate using ElasticSearch as term index backend to take some
   load of the most-used database table

See current sprint
items<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=218716&resolution=---&resolution=LATER&resolution=DUPLICATE&emailtype1=substring&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&bug_status=ASSIGNED&email1=wikidata>
for
what we’re working on next.

You can view the commits currently in review
here<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(+project:mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/Diff+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/DataValues+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseSolr+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/Ask+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseQuery+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseDatabase+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseQueryEngine+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseDataModel+)+status:open,n,z>
and
the ones that have been merged
here<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(+project:mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/Diff+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/DataValues+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseSolr+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/Ask+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseQuery+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseDatabase+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseQueryEngine+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseDataModel+)+status:merged,n,z>
.

You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata
here<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1&list_id=151540&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org>
 Monthly Tasks

   - Fix a format or content
violation<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Constraint_violations/P604>
for
   the MedlinePlus ID (P604) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P604>
    property
   - Hack on one of
these<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515>
   .
   - Contribute to a Showcase
item<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase>
   - Help develop the next summary
here!<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next>


Anything to add? Please share! :)


Cheers

Lydia

-- 
Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager for Wikidata

Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de

Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.

Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
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